Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas An 824-page investigative file offers a visceral picture of an officer's attempt to prosecute librarians amid a nationwide movement to criminalize books.

As abortion pills cross state and federal borders, they also cross conceptual boundaries, shifting in status between legal and illegal. Any drug can acquire the label of a fake or falsified product, not because of problems in manufacturing but because of irregularities in packaging, distribution, regulatory authority, and mobility. Depending on its geography and the logistics of its journey, the same medicine can be considered licit or illicit, inexpensive or costly, even safe or dangerous. The Buyer, The Seller, The CEO, The Activist. Sydney Calkin for The Baffler (archive.org link)

Would you like to learn how to play the board game Go? This website is visually appealing, simple to use, and easy to understand. You will start with explanations of the fundamental rules of the game and progress through basic beginner play using interactive puzzles.

What would happen if Trent Reznor had been transported to 1979? Probably not this, but it's pretty amusing. SLYT.

Earlier this year, Floyd County School District cancelled their planned community read following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with reproductive parts that can pollinate and flower simultaneously. In the book, originally published in 2017, the tree claims an identity that is "both" female and male and responds to diverse pronouns. Author Katherine Applegate visited Floyd, VA this month. 'Wishtree' Author Responds To Virginia Community's Cancellation Of 'One Book' Program (audio interview with transcript, WVPB)

This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won't be easy. Margaret Roach for the NYT. "When you operate a botanic garden, you hope that it's here in perpetuity," he said, and you work with that horizon in mind, not just the current year's displays. "You expect that this property, that this garden is going to survive long past anyone who's actively managing it."

Close Looking: Lieven van Lathem's Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies Join the Getty's ongoing video series on close-looking, where intriguing personalities explore the details of art works they cherish. Do you want to hear how a Flemish illuminator, Lieven van Lathem dazzled readers in 1464 with the manuscript, Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies? Senior Curator of Manuscripts, Beth Morrison selects her favorite pages from the romance story that showcases a love triangle, exotic adventures, and extraordinary worlds in tiny manuscript spaces. SLYT 6:43

The breads, puddings, and tarts of your grandparents' generation were made with a completely different banana. Brandon Summers-Miller at epicurious. (archive.org link)

Shani Lechan's wigs have been worn by cancer patients, neighborhood moms and supermodels. Her golden rule? They can't look "wiggy." "I looked at my best friend, who was married at the time, and I'm like, 'I'm going to make you a wig, your wig is not good,'" Ms. Lechan said. "Then my mom wanted a wig, and then her friend wanted a wig, and this whole thing started." Sandra E. Garcia for the NYT

NYT review of a new exhibit at the Clark Art Museum in the Berkshires: "Born into slavery, Guillaume Lethière became one of France's most decorated painters. For the first time, a major exhibition gives us the full view of his scenes of love and war." And WaPo: he rose to the top of France's art world. Guillaume Lethière's epic life is the subject of a stunning new exhibition

A New Map Of Medieval London Matt Brown for Londonist writes about work by the Historic Towns Trust. "Today, I'd like to share with you a newly created map of medieval London that is, quite frankly, astonishing in its detail."

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The City's Crawling With Feral Cats Volunteers are the only thing standing between the city and a stream of sick cats. They're barely making a dent. They're barely making a dent. By Molly Osberg For New York. Please support your local TNR: As she introduced me to each cat, she ran down her daily routine: Clean half a dozen litter boxes, feed the cats, dole out medication in "nine to 15 little bowls," send a round of emails to vets in the hopes of getting discounted checkups and scans. "And then, of course, I'll try to get some content," she says. "Because if there's no content, we're not getting people's freaking coffee money to donate towards our, like, exploded eyeball surgery."

"I could no longer enjoy the game," he said. "So I retired." Lee Saedol was one of the world's top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. "It may not be a happy ending," he says.